Famke Janssen Will Star in ‘Kickback’ With John Cusack

If John Cusack wants to use this part of his career to style himself as an action hero, we are all for it. And if he wants to add a bonafide action heroine into the mix for his next film, we’re even more for it.

Talking Lens Productions has just announced (via ComingSoon) that Famke Janssen has just joined Cusack’s Kickback, an action outing from writer and director Raza Mallal that has an intriguing premise and an outstanding cast to recommend it. We didn’t think that was possible these days (not counting the Fast and Furious films, obviously).

The film “follows a renegade Moscow detective investigating the murder of a female war journalist.” The project is described as an “espionage themed thriller” and, get this, it’s actually based on a true story (or at least that’s what the press release tells us).

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